Items tagged with: resurrections and continuations

The Nmoto Nostalgia goes beyond “retro.” Photos courtesy Nmoto, Inc. and as noted. Any time a manufacturer trots out a “retro” design or even dusts off a vintage nameplate, the responses are the same...

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. At the crest of a wave of retro design that swept over the auto industry at the turn of the 21st Century, Ford introduced a pair of concepts that called back to one of...

Superformance’s Shelby Daytona coupe replica. Photo courtesy Superformance. Despite a number of pleas from the Specialty Equipment Market Association to move along regulations that would allow replic...

Images are by RBW Classic Electric Cars, except where noted While the sounds, smells, and feeling of an internal-combustion engine and three-pedal manual transmission have always been an integral par...

Photo courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Over the years, cab companies have sent entire fleets of Checker taxis — worn out to the brink of literally falling apart, rusted, and scavenged for p...

This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...

2019 Volkswagen Beetle Final Edition convertibles, in SE (left) and SEL trims. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America, Inc., unless otherwise noted. The original Volkswagen Beetle was the symbol of a ...

Photos courtesy JosefGanz.org. Though they came about €30,000 short of their crowdfunding goal, the duo behind the restoration of one of the few remaining Beetle predecessors built by Jewish designer...

Images are courtesy of Aston Martin Media Aston Martin is no stranger to capitalizing on its incredible back-catalog, having recently sold 25 “ continuation ” alloy-bodied DB4 GT Lightweights, each o...

2019 Honda Monkey. Photos courtesy American Honda. Once a preferred platform for those learning to ride a motorcycle, Honda’s Z50A “monkey bike” hasn’t been offered to U.S. consumers since 1979, when...

David Brown Automotive’s Mini Remastered at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Photos by Ronan Glon. Fancy a classic, round-nose BMC Mini, but you want something a bit more luxurious and a bit more personal...

Photos courtesy Doug Pray. Not long after Glenn Pray started building his fiberglass-bodied Auburn 866 boattail speedsters, dozens of companies around the country copied the design with their own fib...

Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. In the course of researching independent fiberglass body builders of the Fifties and early Sixties, Geoff Hacker has met several people who were directly involved with t...

You can’t beat the old Sears catalogs as reference material. Photos by the author. One of the neatest references for everyday-material culture of the past is a Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalog. Sea...

The continuation D-type engineering prototype. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Introduced in 1954, Jaguar’s D-type was a revolutionary sports racer built with one primary goal in mind: victory in ...

The limited-production 2018 Land Rover Defender Works V8. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In January 2016, the last Land Rover Defender ever built rolled off the production line at the automaker’s...

From the seller’s description: For Sale a Very Rare 1989 Bugatti De La Chapelle Type 55 Left Hand Drive. This was the only sanctioned replica of the Type 55 Bugatti by the Bugatti family. Built in Ly...

Images are courtesy Groupe Renault. This is a car that, in 25 years’ time, American enthusiasts will be lining up to import. It’s the 2018 Alpine A110, and while it shares its name and lines with the...

Owner Karl Foulkes-Halbard poses with the K3 after an exhilarating test run. Photos courtesy Lisa Beaney Photography. Okay, so it didn’t go at its record-setting speed of 130.91 mph that was set on A...

Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Duesenberg pretty much undisputedly sits atop the heap as the most luxurious, most exclusive, and most storied American carmaker to have existed, all the more remarkable ...

Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. The stars all appeared to align for Duesenberg’s return in the mid-Sixties: a Duesenberg family member at the helm, an Exner-designed and Ghia-built prototype, confirmed or...

The 2018 TVR Griffith. Photos courtesy TVR. In 2013, then-defunct boutique British sports car brand TVR was revived by Les Edgar, John Chasey and a group of investors under the TVR Automotive Limited...

All images by Terry Shea/Hemmings Land Rover is pretty much killing it in the U.S. these days. With several different Land Rover and Range Rover models for sale, the company is perfectly prepared for...